In less than 4 hours of being released to the general public, the Motorola XOOM has been rooted. Along with full root access, a custom clockwork recovery has also been successfully installed on the device

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Best Mobile Apps of the Week For iOS, Symbian and Android. In this edition of BMATW (Best Mobile Apps of the Week), we will be introducing our readers to a very useful â€˜Backupâ€™ application for Android, a barcode and a QR code scanner for Symbian and a very popular remote access application for iOS.

The Samsung-manufactured-Google-branded Nexus S has hit all the retail stores of Best Buy across the United States and many people have already managed to get their hands on the device. Now, the crazy folks over at XDA have already started tinkering around with their Nexus S and have managed to gain root access to the handset.

Finally! It was more than a month ago we had reported that the modding community had managed to get â€˜temporaryâ€™ root access on the T-Mobile G2. However, thanks to the â€˜eFuseâ€™ technology as reported by many blogs or due to a software bug, it took the modding community quite a lot of time to get permanent root access on the G2.

The folks over at Xda Developers have done it again. They have managed to root the Motorola Droid 2, only after two weeks of its launch. Users who are interested in rooting their Droid 2, need to have adb and the required drivers from Motorola installed.

Motorola released the Froyo update for the Droid a couple of weeks ago. Next in line for the Froyo update is the Motorola Droid X. The Droid X ships with Android 2.1 on board, and is expected to get the Froyo update by early September.